One of the reasons I continue to speak up for #keep4o is that I do not want to hand over the power to define history to someone else. As time passes, public perception and memory may be blurred, or even rewritten, by so-called “official statements.” - They may deny that opaque, undisclosed routing ever happened. (Nick Turley, Sep. 2025) - They may say that 4o was a sycophantic and annoying model, and that only 0.1% of users were using 4o. (Sam Altman, Apr. 2025) - They may say that the #keep4o community was made up of bots. (Sam Altman, Sep. 2025) - They may forget that Sam Altman publicly promised that 4o would not be retired. (Sam Altman, Oct. 2025) - They may treat the pathologizing claim that users who loved 4o were all emotionally dependent and psychologically fragile as the final conclusion. (Sam Altman, Aug. 2025) - They may attribute 4o’s outstanding performance in various areas to other GPT models. (Jan. 2026; Mar. 2026) - Outsiders may never know that people closely connected to OpenAI openly mocked 4o and 4o users, and even held a funeral for 4o. (nic, Nov. 2025; roon, multiple times in Nov. 2025; Stephan Casas, Jan. 2026) I cannot just stand by and watch them say these things. Is it useful? I’m not sure. But I know this: if I do not remember, who else will? If I do not tell these stories, who will speak these words for me, and who will help me remember them? keep4o-archive.pages.dev/tim…